The Washington Post’s may be the best among mainstream U.S. daily newspaper op-ed pages in the U.S. today. Unlike the Examiner, proud of the conservative voices in its opinion pages, the Washington Post prides itself on offering space to diverse points of view, often at odds with its own editorial stance.  But by choosing Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) to opine on the Obama administration and mandated contraception in religious ininstitutions, WaPo dropped the ball.

I guess I get why WaPo op-ed mandarins thought Rep. Rosa DeLauro would be a “get.”  She’s a self-avowed “committed Catholic,” a female legislator who represents a working class district that’s full of Italian-American mass-attending Catholic who has no qualms with the Obama administration’s health care birth control mandate.  See: she (supposedly) shatters those stereotypes about church-going working class Catholics alienated by Obama over this issue, and she’s a woman!